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Strange Feeling, Shit Coming
Taint is known to be one of the most authoritative and pervert act in the power electronics scene. A kind of juiced up, Taint squared a brutal stew of screaming high-end feedback, crushing distorted scrape and corrosive furious vocals that are overlaid with sheets of white noise. Strange Feeling, Shit Coming, that was released on legendary Japanese tape label G.R.O.S.S. in 1993, showed Taint at his best. Fucking brutal!The record has been pressed on 140 gr black vinyl with black label and black …
No Sacrifice LP
Vidna Obmana is a pseudonym used by Belgian artist Dirk Serries. He has been a significant name in the ambient scene for more than two decades, releasing over more than 50 solo albums and numerous collaborations. But apart from his main ambient colleagues, Vidna Obmana originates from the industrial cassette network scene in early eighties, releasing several tapes on his own label and on others. No Sacrifice Lp get tracks from infamous tape released in 1985 on Zeal SS No sacrifice for w…
Wattle
** 270 copies ** Elevator Bath's series of picture disc LPs (each record being adorned with full-color artwork by the recording artist) comes to its conclusion with a top-notch new release from the great Masami Akita. Wattle is a new, two-part composition featuring Akita's traditional soup of unidentifiable metallic clanging, crushing feedback, jagged white noise, and various effects. It does not disappoint. There are no drums, no guitars, no vocals; just scorching electronic mayhem of the highe…
Unstable
The involvement in the improbable challenge of a collaboration with another musical entity takes on its full meaning when the two characters have radically different personalities ! In 2001, the merger of Brume with the American project Bastard Noise could have seem surreal ! One works in the field of Musique concrete, and the others in what we can call Power electronics, making their own sound generators (DIY). The first album of this association materialised with a very successful CD! 2012… po…
Case Studies In Early Taxidermy Techniques
Dominick Fernow’s Hospital Productions label finally unveil this epic, years-in-the-making 20 CD retrospective/compilation of Patrick O’Neil’s noise project Skin Crime. Fernow has described Skin Crime as “the missing link between European musique concrete, Japanese noise, and the gritty abstract electronics of what became the glory and gory days of ‘American harsh noise” and has cited them as a major influence on his own work, and no doubt a major catalyst in the formation of Hospital Production…
Ripper Box
Atrax Morgue is the brainchild of Marco Corbelli as sound project started in the early nineties and focused in various areas related to the field of psychopathology: murder, violent death, sadism, necrophilia, schizophrenia and insanity. The primary influences come from projects as Brighter Death Now and Whitehouse, pioneers of a minimal, evil and visceral electronic; and from the legendary projects Mauthausen Orchestra and The Sodality. The main manifesto of Atrax Morgue is the analysis of the …
Atsusaku
Atsusaku is the collaborative output of Gareth Davis (Oiseaux Tempete, Scanner, Elliott Sharp, Machinefabriek etc) and Japanese noise mastermind Masami Akita aka Merzbow. A massive wall of sound over two tracks that moves from the shifting low-end structures and the ricochet of howling reeds to the blistering haze of dense white noise and rapid-fire electronic tones. The title Atsusaku, suggests pressure or mechanical compression and it was from this starting point, the idea of Davis' reed sound…
Premiere Unite Bruitiste
Entre Vifs were a crucial late '80s French industrial band. Premiere Unite Bruitiste is their previously-unreleased debut album from 1986. The band was led by Zorin, musician and visual propagandist in the legendary Le Syndicat.Their fascination with chaos, strength, and violence was not motivated by provocation but by the sheer pleasure of manipulating noise material. "Of all the noise I've listened to, Entre Vifs is perhaps the only group who directly influenced my sound and technique." --Rodg…
The Back Room
Kevin Drumm is a Chicago-based experimental artist and one of the most important musicians in the electroacoustic noise scene. During his career he has worked with great improvisers such as Mats Gustafsson, producer Jim O'Rourke and saxophonist Ken Vandermark. Kevin Drumm's Imperial Distortion (HOS 134LP) and Sheer Hellish Miasmah (EMEGO 053LP) are must-hear albums of contemporary avant-garde.The Back Room is a vinyl reissue of a previously self-released album. Two years ago, Drumm prepar…
Blackhouse - Sacrificium Messiae
Previously unreleased Maurizio Binachi recordings from 1983, backed with early Blackhouse recordings, which were only released before as bonus tracks on the rare American edition of the 'Pro-Life' CD in 1997. Edition on white-red splatter vinyl, limited to 80 copies.
Convergence And Diffuzion
Great and heavy new recordings from the Japanese Experimental Noise Masters Dissecting Table. New solo recordings from Marc Hurtado (one of the two ETANT DONNÈS brothers). Very heavy and sublime dronning Noise-music, totally fantastic!!! Vinyl comes as "oxblood" with black splatters in heavy gatefold cover. Limited edition of 30 copies.
Wrist
Paolo Bandera founded in the mid-eighties with Eraldo Bernocchi the colossal collective post-industrial Sigillum S. In 1993 he created his solo project Sshe Retina Stimulants, devoting himself to sharpen the edges of concepts and noise extremes. Andrea Chiaravalli started with Iugula-Thor in 1992 and from his first release on Minus Abens Records titled The Wheel Of The Process he collaborates with Paolo and Eraldo. Their prolific cooperation culminates with Writs CD, released by the trem…
Disturbance
Moreno Daldosso breaks into 1993 with his project Murder Corporation and released his first tape on his new label Murder Release. Tape after tape, Murder Corporation has gained a prominent position as electronic serial slaughterer, claiming frontal attacks and sonic walls relentlessly, sampling overload and brutal distortion. Disturbance was recorded at Murderhouse , January 1995 and it was released from legendary Slaughter Productions the same year on double cassette inside vhs box in st…
Seinsart : Live at Morden Tower
*Limited edition of 150 copies.* First ever official vinyl re-issue of this absolutely essential TNB recordings! Seinsart : Live At Morden Tower includes two legendary full live performances recorded in 1983. Originally Seinsart : Live At Morden Tower was self released by TNB in an edition of 100 copies on cassette. The original tape edition is very hard to find and ridiculously expensive nowadays. Black vinyl LP with printed labels. Paste on cover. It includes replicas of the original performa…
Sacrez Help
M.B. : Theocratictronics, spiritual sound effects, intangible pictures. Recorded during the month of Tishiri, in the year of 6039 A.M. Decicated to the genial german writer Stephan Kraus (1963 - 201?). Appreciative thanks fo Pharmakustik for his modular structures applied during the period 2005/2014. New Sacher Pelz album !! Brand new album by Maurizio Bianchi that under his early moniker Sacher Pelz presents us a very meditative and deeply atmospheric work. Instead of concrete Sacher Pelz noi…
Ecobondage
Originally released in 1987 and first reissued in the mid 1990s on CD, Ecobondage is one of Merzbow’s seminal works, and also one of my earliest experiences with his vast discography. Presented as a double LP reissue (with included CD), the album feels like an appropriately deluxe edition that captures a high point of Masami Akita's too often overlooked, but superior junk noise era. As I have surely mentioned in previous reviews of his albums, my first exposure to Akita's work was Venereology. L…
BiS Kaidan Last Gig @ WWW
In May 2014, the group held their final concert as BiS Kaidan before disbanding, much as BiS themselves will disband in July. Notably, their final show began with the group performing "nerve", their representative song, thirteen times in a row.
Biskaidan is a cross-generational coup de pop, uniting two acts from opposing ends of Japan's musical spectrum. BiS (short for Brand-New Idol Society) are representatives of Japan's 'idol' scene, a culture of singerdancer-celebs who define the country'…
BiS Kaidan 2
Biskaidan is a cross-generational coup de pop, uniting two acts from opposing ends of Japan's musical spectrum. BiS (short for Brand-New Idol Society) are representatives of Japan's 'idol' scene, a culture of singerdancer-celebs who define the country's pop mainstream. Hijokaidan led by guitarist Jojo Hiroshige and screaming witch Junko) is an infamous art-noise improv troupe dating back to the late '70s, famous for stage antics both familiar (squalls of feedback, guitar throwing) and less famil…
S.P.K. Dokument - Recordings 1979-83 (Friends Edition)
Mind-crushing 7LP box set housed in a deluxe book-like folder featuring the earliest recorded material from the legendary SPK, dating back to the late 70's and including some properly eye-opening material and combining all of their early works and the bands-history prior to Graeme Revell signing to Wea and to go a slightly different path and more commercial with the band's musical output.
SPK was an Australian industrial band formed in 1978 in Sydney by Graeme Revell and Neil Hill, being …
The Complete Recordings
Among the releases of 1993 under the name Slaughter Productions, there is also Insanatorivm , a tape issued by Marco Corbelli with the moniker of Kranivm. This side project, conceived and completed in little more than a year, released other two tapes, Brighter The Edge Of Death and I - The Blood . This last one was finally reprinted in 1997 by the French label The Family Erzsebet with the title Chapter Blood , and a few tracks taken from the first two cassettes. Insanatorivm and Brighter T…